Kate Chopin's The Story Of An Hour

Kate Chopin “The story of an hour”
When you wake up from a dream sometimes your palms are sweaty, your heart is racing you feel as if you just ran a marathon. Other times you want to close your eyes peacefully and fall back into the place you just were. A dream is a surreal form of a story. Your imagination runs wild; you have no control of what is going to happen next. In contrast while reading, writing, imagining a story, one has a sense of where the story is heading. In “The Story of an Hour” the plot has characteristics of a dream; therefore, through the title “Dream of an hour,” the reader can better understand the storyline. When one has a dream it is usually fast paced, and the order of events seems unorganized. The first
To her the death of her husband seems like a dream. Upon hearing the news Mrs. Mallard is compared to a dreaming child: “a child who cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams,” (15) Chopin is trying to depict how dreamlike and surreal the news of her husband’s death
Since nothing in a dream lasts forever, the reader would understand that a dream does not last forever and would apply that to Mrs. Mallard’s situation and realize her dream does not last either. If Kate Chopin kept the title the dream of an hour the reader would have been able to understand the narrative from a clearer point of view and this would have enhanced the reader’s experience. The assumptions the reader needs to make to connect to the narrative will be provoked easier with the title the dream of an hour. “The Story of an Hour” should have been more appropriately titled the dream of an hour due its elements of the illusion of Mrs. Mallard’s freedom, its unexpected plot, and inconclusive